Vice President – Payments Platforms will serve as the strategic and technical leader responsible for the modernization, governance, and innovation of the bank’s payments ecosystem, with a key mandate to lead the migration from Oracle Flexcube to Oracle Banking Payments (OBP) 14.7. This role requires exceptional leadership, cross-functional coordination, and deep domain expertise to future-proof the bank’s payment architecture and operational landscape.

Key Result Areas: --

Modernization of Payments Architecture

- Define the target OBP architecture, retire redundant legacy components, and integrate RTGS, SWIFT, ACH, ICCS, NPSS, and proprietary networks.
- Drive API-first, modular, and microservices-based modernization aligned with enterprise standards. Stakeholder and Cross-Functional Coordination
- Align business, operations, compliance, technology, and regional stakeholders on OBP priorities and rollout plans.
- Serve as Payments SME in executive, regulatory, and strategic forums. Innovation and Capability Building
- Advance real-time payments, ISO 20022, intelligent fraud detection and routing, auto reconciliation, repair automation, and predictive SLA monitoring.

Vendor and Partner Management

- Govern Partner Performance, SLAs, risks, escalations, roadmaps, statements of work, commercials,



and support models.

Team Leadership and Capability Development

- Build and develop a high-performing team of platform engineers, business analysts, solution architects, and project managers.
- Establish KPIs, training, career development, knowledge transfer, and post-go-live capability.

Operational

Excellence and Service Continuity

- Ensure production stability, service continuity, BCP/DR readiness, root-cause closure, and preventive monitoring after migration. OBP Migration and Scoping Workshops (Cross-Cutting)
- Lead six-country scoping and future-state workshops covering workflows, regulatory needs, configuration, exceptions, pain points, estimates, and governance.
- Consolidate outcomes into an approved scope, delivery plan, and resource budget.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

- Solid communication and stakeholder management skills across business and technology teams
- Deep expertise in payments systems and end-to-end processing
- Broad understanding of banking operations, regulatory frameworks, and industry trends
- Proven ability to articulate complex topics clearly, both verbally and in writing
- Sharp analytical thinking with sound decision-making capabilities

📌 Vice President - Technology - Payment Gateways (Oracle Banking Payments) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mashreq
📍 Bengaluru